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As the name suggests ''Famicom Tsuushin'' was originally published every two weeks, but in 1991 became '''''Weekly Famicom Tsuushin''''' ('''''Shuukan Famicom Tsuushin''''' (週刊ファミコン通信)) with a new issue going to press every week (with a monthly publication, ''[[Gekkan Famicom Tsuushin]]'' (月刊ファミコン通信) launching around the same period). While used as an abbreviation for years, the magazine fully adopted its ''Famitsu'' name in 1996.

As the name suggests ''Famicom Tsuushin'' was originally published every two weeks, but in 1991 became '''''Weekly Famicom Tsuushin''''' ('''''Shuukan Famicom Tsuushin''''' (週刊ファミコン通信)) with a new issue going to press every week (with a monthly publication, ''[[Gekkan Famicom Tsuushin]]'' (月刊ファミコン通信) launching around the same period). While used as an abbreviation for years, the magazine fully adopted its ''Famitsu'' name in 1996.

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The Famitsu name has been used across many other monthly and quarterly gaming publications, as well as books and even a television series.

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The ''Famitsu'' name has been used across many other monthly and quarterly gaming publications, as well as books and even a television series.

Famitsu began life as Famicom Tsuushin (ファミコン通信), a Famicom news column in Login magazine, but was popular enough to become its own publication, Biweekly Famicom Tsuushin in 1986. Initially struggling against its competition, the magazine chose to expand and diversify, covering non-Nintendo video games, eventually becoming Japan's most popular and longest running multi-platform console games magazine.

As the name suggests Famicom Tsuushin was originally published every two weeks, but in 1991 became Weekly Famicom Tsuushin (Shuukan Famicom Tsuushin (週刊ファミコン通信)) with a new issue going to press every week (with a monthly publication, Gekkan Famicom Tsuushin (月刊ファミコン通信) launching around the same period). While used as an abbreviation for years, the magazine fully adopted its Famitsu name in 1996.

The Famitsu name has been used across many other monthly and quarterly gaming publications, as well as books and even a television series.